LEADER 05104nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910453652703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-907396-05-5 035 $a(CKB)2550000001158201 035 $a(OCoLC)731690635 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10491583 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC716163 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC584909 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL716163 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10491583 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL541291 035 $a(OCoLC)670411365 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL584909 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001158201 100 $a20110323d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aEroticism and death in theatre and performance$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Karoline Gritzner 210 $aHatfield, Hertfordshire $cUniversity of Hertfordshire Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (282 p.) 311 $a1-902806-92-1 311 $a1-306-10040-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction by Karoline Gritzner -- 1 Some Eros-Thanatos interfaces in Attic Tragedy by David Rudkin -- 2 Dying for love: the tragicomedy of Shakespeare's Cleopatra by Robert Wilcher -- 3 Desire and destruction in the drama of Georg Bu?chner by Karoline Gritzner -- 4 Labyrinths of the taboo: theatrical journeys of eroticism and death in Parisian culture by Richard J. Hand -- 5 The kiss of love and death: Eros and Thanatos in the opera by Dieter Borchmeyer -- 6 Eros/sex, death/murder: sensuality, homicide and culture in Musil, Brecht and the Neue Sachlichkeit by George Hunka -- 7 The living corpse: a metaphysic for theatre by Dic Edwards -- 8 Flirting with disaster by David Ian Rabey -- 9 Howard Barker's 'monstrous assaults': eroticism, death and the antique text by Graham Saunders -- 10 'Welcome to the house of fun': Eros, Thanatos, and the uncanny in grand illusions by Michael Mangan -- 11 Visions of Xs: experiencing La Fura dels Baus's XXX and Ron Athey's Solar Anus by Roberta Mock -- 12 La petite mort: erotic encounters in One to One performance by Rachel Zerihan -- 13 Saint Nick: a parallax view of Nick Cave by David Pattie -- 14 Afterword: The corpse and its sexuality by Howard Barker -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aEros and Death are the two central drives and compulsions of the human psyche, and their dynamic interconnectedness has been pervasive in the formation of Western thought and culture. The essays brought together in this collection offer new perspectives on the eros/death relation in a wide selection of dramatic texts, theatrical practices and cultural performances. Topics explored range from Greek tragedy, Shakespearean theatre, the work of Georg Bu?chner, Bertolt Brecht, the kiss of death in opera, the theatricality of Parisian culture, to the performance of conjuring, contemporary British drama, body art, the live performances of Nick Cave and erotic encounters in One to One performances. Many of the essays locate their discussions of erotic desire and death as conflicting and entwining passions in specific cultural-historical contexts and provide a sense of how drama and theatre reflect and influence changing attitudes towards sexuality and death. As well as offering particular historical perspectives, the collection contains essays that engage with contemporary dramatic writing and experimental theatre/performance practice, such as the drama of Howard Barker, the performance work of La Fura dels Baus, and the explicit body performances of Ron Athey. Various ways of eroticising death in theatre and through performance are addressed, as well as the question of whether there is something intrinsically theatrical about our encounters with the ultimately unknowable nature of sexual desire and our relation to death. The book combines theoretically informed criticism (drawing on psychoanalytical and philosophical models by Freud, Bataille, Lacan, Zizek, Lingis and others) with detailed text and performance analyses, giving a sense of the powerful appeal which death and the erotic exert on the human imagination. The collection also includes essay 330 8 $acontributions by dramatists David Rudkin, Dic Edwards, David Ian Rabey and an Afterword by Howard Barker. 606 $aDrama$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEroticism in literature 606 $aDeath in the theater 606 $aTheater$xHistory 606 $aDesire in art 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aDrama$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEroticism in literature. 615 0$aDeath in the theater. 615 0$aTheater$xHistory. 615 0$aDesire in art. 676 $a809.2/9353 701 $aGritzner$b Karoline$01034775 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453652703321 996 $aEroticism and death in theatre and performance$92454108 997 $aUNINA